Feldman, making her fourth trip to nationals, is ranked No. 12 in the women's 400 meters. Her season-best time of 55.67 seconds came May 12 at Allegheny College's 12th Annual Gator Invitational. That's already two-tenths of one second faster than her 11th-place time at last spring's NCAA outdoor championships. Her best national placement came in the 400 at the 2016 indoor meet, where she finished seventh and earned All-America distinction. She also finished 11th in the 400 at the 2017 indoor meet in March.

Collins, making his second NCAA appearance, is No. 18 in the men's 5,000 meters. His best time this season -- 14:25.03 at the Bucknell Bison Outdoor Classic on April 14 -- kept him in the NCAA field of 20 men despite the challenges of several other runners entered in a multitude of last-chance meets held across the country the past two weeks. He also is No. 31 in the men's 10,000 meters, 11 spots from making the national field. His previous NCAA experience came at the 2015 NCAA Men's Cross Country championship meet.

Feldman will compete next Friday, May 26, during preliminaries scheduled to start at 2:45 p.m. The top eight women advance to finals at 1:10 p.m. Saturday, May 27. Collins and the other 19 qualifiers will toe the line together in the men's 5,000 final scheduled for 3:25 p.m. next Saturday, May 27.

NOTES: Feldman is the only SUNYAC woman in the field and the only one on the Top 50 list compiled by the Track & Field Results Reporting System ... In addition to Feldman and Collins, three other Fredonians made the TFRRS's Top 50 lists: junior Justyn Haines (Albion, N.Y. / Albion), 42nd in the men's pole vault; junior Anneliese Bienko (Clarence, N.Y. / Clarence), 44th in the women's discus; and junior Mikayla Capestrani (Jamestown, N.Y. / Jamestown), 50th in the women's pole vault ... Haines and Bienko competed Thursday at Ohio Wesleyan's 2017 Great Lakes Final Qualifying Meet but were unable to move up onto the national qualifying lists.

Competing at the Allegheny College Gator Invitational, the junior sprinter set a Robertson Field record with a winning time of 55.67 seconds. It's the fastest time in the Atlantic Region and the seventh fastest in Division III this spring. The top 22 women in each event qualify for the national meet May 25 to May 27 at The Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

While Feldman was writing her ticket to nationals, Mikayla Capestrani (Jamestown, N.Y. / Jamestown) was breaking her own school outdoor pole vault record. A junior, Capestrani cleared 11 feet, 8 1/2 inches to finish tied for fifth Friday. It was 2 3/4 inches higher than she went earlier this month.

In the men's pole vault, Justyn Haines (Albion, N.Y. / Albion) cleared 15 feet, 3 1/2 inches to finish third. It was a personal-best for Haines. In the men's 1500m run, (JR) Merlin Joseph set a personal best time of 3:57.25.

The Blue Devils will have two athletes competing this week at the Great Lakes NCAA Final Qualifying meet hosted by Ohio Wesleyan College in Delaware OH. (JR) Justyn Haines will look to qualify in the pole vault starting at noon on Thursday. (JR) Anneliese Bienko will be competing in the discus throw starting at 6:00pm.

The top 22 women and 20 men in each event qualify for the national meet May 25 to May 27 at The Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

On Day 1 of the SUNYAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Kyle Brown (Hamburg, N.Y. / Hamburg) turned in the top finish for a Blue Devil, finishing third in the hammer throw with a toss of 50.78 (166'7''). Damone Brown (Hamburg, N.Y. / Hamburg) added to the team score, placing sixth with a throw of 46.43m (152'4'').

A pair of javelin throwers also scored. Joseph Gabrielli (Depew, N.Y. / Depew) was fourth with a throw of 44.98m (147'7''), and Brendan Long (Millbrook, N.Y. / Pine Plains) had a throw of 42.57m (139'8'').

In the preliminaries, Chase Towse (East Northport, N.Y. / Northport) moved into the finals on Saturday with a time of 56.64 s.

Fredonia had four third-place finishers Saturday at the 2017 SUNYAC Outdoor Track & Field championship meet for a fifth place team finish.

Merlin Joseph Jr. (Binghamton, N.Y.), Chase Towse (East Northport, N.Y.), and Kyle Collins (Suffern, N.Y.) were third in running events. Damone Brown (Haverstraw, N.Y.) was the lone third-place finisher in a field event. Each of the four earned six team points.

Here is a recap of Saturday's competition:

Joseph Jr., a junior, was third in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:01.30 to earn six points, while senior Bobby Cooper (Macedon, N.Y.) scored fourth points for finishing fifth in 4:02.99. It was the highest individual placement by both men at a SUNYAC meet. Joseph was 9th and Cooper 10th in last year's race.

Towse, a junior, went a personal-best 55.56 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles. It was almost one second faster than his preliminary time Saturday, which netted him Saturday's fourth seed. Towse finished sixth last year.

A fifth-year senior, Collins came through with 14:49.23 in the 5,000 meters, an event which also saw Ethan Francis (Dunkirk, N.Y.) finish seventh in 15:28.01.

A junior, Brown was third in the shot put -- one-half inch out of second -- with a toss of 15.26 meters, or 50 feet, 3/4 of an inch. It was a personal best by nearly 28 inches. Joseph Gabrielli (Depew, N.Y.) had a sixth-place throw of 13.89 meters (45 feet, 7 inches), also a personal-best in the shot put. Gabrielli was fourth, Damone Brown fifth, and senior Kyle Brown (Hamburg, N.Y.) eighth in the discus. Gabrielli's 40.27 meters (132 feet, 1 inch) was a personal-best.

It was a busy day couple of days for junior Mitchel Paciga (Jeffersonville, N.Y.). He scored a career-best 5,520 points to finish fifth in the decathlon. His 10-event total included a wind-aided personal-best of 6.20 meters (20 feet, 4 1/4 inches) in the long jump. In addition to competing in the decathlon, he took six tries in the open high jump and cleared 1.85 meters -- 6 feet, 3/4 of an inch -- to finish sixth.BLUE DEVILS ON THE BOARD: A 31-year SUNYAC meet long jump record held by Fredonia alum Pat Corbett -- 7.37 meters in 1986 -- came down Friday when Cortland's Devlen Williams soared 7.44 meters ... the meet and conference shot put records remain the domain of Fredonia alum Dan Mlodozeniec -- 17.64 meters overall and 17.39 for the meet -- during the 1983 season ... Fredonia alum Kym Orr shares the meet high jump record (2.13) and still holds the overall conference mark (2.24 meters), both from the 1985 season ... current Blue Devil assistant coach Ryan Pericozzi, a SUNY Cortland alum, along with Broncho Rollins from Fredonia retained the meet pole vault record for another year at 4.90 meters set in 2011.

Day 1 of the SUNYAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships saw a pole vaulter set a new school standard. Mikayla Capestrani (Jamestown, N.Y. / Jamestown) cleared 3.50 m (11'5.5'') while finishing second. She was edged out by Claire Fisher of Brockport with a vault of 3.60m (11'9.75'').

Kristen Sawyer (Lockport, N.Y. / Lockport) also earned points in the pole vault for the Devils, placing seventh with a height of 3.20m (10'6'').

The women had a pair of runners score in the 10,000m run. Brenna Donovan (Youngstown, N.Y. / Lewiston-Porter) finished third in 38:37.52, and Kelly Vincent (Randolph, N.Y. / Randolph) was in sixth in a time of 40:31.74.

The only other Blue Devil to score on Day 1 was Rachel Williams (Lockport, N.Y. / Lockport) in the hammer throw. She was seventh with a toss of 43.97m (144'3'').

In preliminaries, Brittany Feldman (Jamestown, N.Y. / Southwestern) set the pace in both the 400m (56.29) and 200m (25.70) dashes. She will be the top seed heading into Saturday's final.

After four events in the heptathalon, Miranda Warner (Westfield, N.Y. / Westfield) is in tenth place.

Fredonia junior Brittany Feldman (Jamestown, N.Y.) was named 2017 Track Athlete of the Meet after winning two events Saturday at the SUNYAC Outdoor Track & Field outdoor championships at SUNY Cortland.

Feldman was first in the 200 meters and the 400 meters. She earned 10 points for each of the wins as the Blue Devils tied Cortland for fourth-place finish in the team standings. Junior jumper Sarah Couperus (Marion, N.Y.) won the high jump to give Fredonia three SUNYAC champs.

Feldman crossed the 400-meter line in 57.17 seconds -- was nearly one second slower than her season-best 56.29-second effort during Friday's preliminaries. The preliminary time was No. 12 on the NCAA Division III qualifying list prior to the start of Saturday's competition across the country. Later Saturday, she won the 200 meters in 25.66 seconds -- four-hundredths of one second off her Friday's preliminary.

The winning high jump by Couperus was 1.62 meters -- roughly 5 feet, 3 3/4 inches. It was almost two inches higher than she had gone this season and was just a fraction short of her personal-best 1.63 meters when she won the SUNYAC 2016 indoor title. She also was fourth in the triple jump at 10.92 meters (35 feet, 10 inches), giving her 15 team points in the two events.

While Fredonia was finishing fourth, Buffalo State came in seventh. By topping the Bengals, the women earned two points in the Battle by the Lake series and retained the Lake Erie Cup for Fredonia for the third straight year. This year's score, 17 1/2 to 15 1/2, was the closest so far and was the first time that the three-year-old series came down to the final competition of the year.

Here is a recap of the rest of Saturday:

In the discus, a second-place throw by junior Anneliese Bienko (Clarence, N.Y.) earned her Second Team All SUNYAC honors (Feldman and Couperus made First Team). Bineko's best throw of the day measured out at 41.91 meters (137 feet, 6 inches), a personal improvement of over five feet. She moved up from No. 4 to No. 3 on the Fredonia outdoor top-10 list.

Meanwhile, junior Rachel Williams (Lockport, N.Y.) was sixth in the discus at 35.63 meters (116 feet, 11 inches), worth three points and a personal-best She earned five additional points in the shot put with a fourth-place throw of 12.15 meters (39 feet, 10 1/2 inches).

Stephanie Wojnowski (Rochester, N.Y.) was fourth and Julia Johnson (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. A sophomore, Wojnowski ran 11:27.31 and earned five team points. She was fifth at last year's meet. Johnson, a senior, earned two points; she was clocked in a personal-best 11:50.95. It was also the first time she earned individual points at a SUNYAC meet.

Brenna Donovan (Youngstown, N.Y.), a sophomore, was eighth in the 5,000 meters with a time of 18:22.07, a personal-best by 2.5 seconds. She was fourth Friday in the 10,000 meters.

In the heptathlon, junior Miranda Warner (Westfield, N.Y.) finished eighth among 14 women with a two-day total of 3,173 points, an improvement over her previous-best 3,038 points two weekends ago at the Cortland Classic. Warner's effort included two personal-bests -- 30.92 seconds in the 200 meters, and 26.88 meters in the javelin.

BLUE DEVILS ON THE BOARD: Fredonia alum and former assistant coach Julia (Hopson) Williamson had her SUNYAC meet hammer throw record taken down Friday by Oneonta's Meghan Surdock. Surdock's winning throw was 56.68 meters compared to Hopson's 55.10 meters at the 2009 championship. Hopson still has the best-ever conference throw of 57.25 meters at a 2008 meet.

A personal-best and fourth-place finish by Merlin Joseph Jr. (Binghamton, N.Y.) highlighted the Fredonia runners' day Saturday at the St. John Fisher Cardinal Classic.

Joseph finished fourth in the 800 meters in 1:56.60. It was one of four personal-best by the Blue Devils. The others were by Ethan Francis (Dunkirk, N.Y.) in the 1,500 meters, Kyle Egan (Monroe, N.Y.) in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and third-place finisher Kyle Brown (Hamburg, N.Y.) in the hammer throw.

Other top-five finishers were Mitchel Paciga (Jeffersonville, N.Y.), second in the high jump; Damone Brown (Haverstraw, N.Y.), second in the shot put; and Chase Towse (East Northport, N.Y.), fifth in the 400-meter hurdles.

Fredonia women had two individual winners and established eight personal-bests Saturday at the St. John Fisher Cardinal Classic.

The wins were by Brittany Feldman (Jamestown, N.Y.) in the 200 meters in 26.03 seconds and Sarah Couperus (Marion, N.Y.) in the high jump with a clearance of 1.57 meters (5 feet, 1 3/4 inches).

Anneliese Bienko (Clarence, N.Y.) and Rachel Williams (Lockport, N.Y.) had personal-bests in the discus, Carly DeBono (Medford, N.Y.) in the 800 meters, and Miranda Warner (Westfield, N.Y.) in the 100-meter high hurdles. Bienko finished second in the discus, Kristen Sawyer (Lockport, N.Y.) third in the pole vault, and Williams fifth in the hammer throw.